Welcome to the official website for Sarah Jane Morris

Bloody Rain is now on sale and was launched with an incredible line up of musicians and special guests at the Union Chapel on Thursday 18th September 2014. 23 musicians on stage at one point! Great review in the Arts Desk by Peter Quinn. On 19th September, The Convent Club gig was filmed and streamed worldwide. Check out the News section to see one of the songs from that performance and to see how you can still download the concert.

Dedicated to the people of Africa, and the music of that continent that has inspired so many artists for so long, Bloody Rain brings together a stunningly diverse group of performers.

Among a raft of guests on the album are the Zimbabwe-born singer Eska, Senegal’s Seckou Keita on kora, UK-Caribbean saxophonist Courtney Pine, Keziah Jones, The Soweto Gospel choir and Adam Glasser from South Africa, the Nigerian singer Keziah Jones, American/ Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen, the UK - Caribbean saxophonist Courtney Pine and the famous James Brown arranger and co-writer Pee Wee Ellis.
My Bloody Rain band are Tony Remy (with whom I have written most of the songs), the wonderful Dominic Miller, Henry Thomas, Martyn Barker, Tim Cansfield and Adriano Adewale.

We hope you enjoy the album and look forward to seeing you at one of the many European concerts promoting Bloody Rain and also please browse my fabulous new website and be sure to check out my live gigs section to see where else we are playing if you missed the Union Chapel.

Yours in Music, Sarah Jane xxx

“Recorded in the UK, Johannesburg, Paris and Tel Aviv, Sarah Jane Morris’s latest album, Bloody Rain, is undoubtedly a labour of love. Hearing it performed live last night in the Union Chapel, in front of an adoring audience, confirmed that it is also her masterpiece.”

“Morris couched the – at times painful – subject matter in the most mellifluous, seductive melodies imaginable.”Peter Quinn, The Arts Desk

I'm so excited that you will be able to buy my single on red vinyl for National Record Store Day on April 18th. It's "Men Just Want To Have Fun" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2ddUTAPuw and an incredible version of "I Shall Be Released" with Keziah Jones as a Double A side.

You can buy the single from participating record stores for the next 2 wee....

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Recent Press

There's no hiding place at a Sarah Jane Morris gig – either from her opulent, multi-octave voice and raw emotional clout that recalls Nina Simone and Janis Joplin, or from her lyrics that explore love and pain, sex crimes, war crimes, Catholicism and contraception – and a whole uncompromising bunch more........the whole show suggested that though Sarah Jane Morris has enjoyed some inspiring partnerships over the years, this latest incarnation with Forcione is already sounding like one of her best.Guardian 09/2013